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From: Talkie Toaster
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 00:00

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>Of course I still think that many Mickeyslut products have grown larger much
>faster than anything else without that much added functionality (Wind0ze,
>"Bob", Word, etc.).

Mhh, I think WordPerfect wears the crown on that. WordPerfect 5.1 was only 
3MB, WP6.1 for DOS takes up 17MB and WP6.1 for Windows takes up a whopping 
35MB! And then they ask theirselves why everyone is still using 5.1!

Martijn

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From: martijn@wirehub.nl (Talkie Toaster)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/28
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